Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Society and Culture
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Society and Culture
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture
